Guraleus australis

Guraleus australis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Guraleus australis
Apertural view of a shell of Guraleus australis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Guraleus
Species:	G. australis
Binomial name
Guraleus australis (Adams & Angas, 1864)
Synonyms[1]
Bela australis Adams & Angas, 1864 (original combination) Guraleus (Mitraguraleus) australis (Adams & Angas, 1864) Mangilia australis Sowerby III, 1896 Mangelia australis Hedley, 1913 Mitraguraleus australis (A. Adams & G.F. Angas, 1864)

This species was considered a variety of Mangilia mitralis ( = Guraleus mitralis) by Pritchard and Gatliff in 1900[2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 16 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and can be found off New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania.

References

1. WoRMS (2009). Guraleus australis (Adams & Angas, 1864). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432718 on 2017-07-07
2. Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc Roy. Soc. Vict., xii., 1900, p. 173

• Adams, A. & Angas, G.F. 1864. Descriptions of new species from Australian seas, in the collection of George French Angas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863(III): 418–428, pl. xxxvii
• Hedley, C. 1913. Studies of Australian Mollusca. Part XI; Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 38 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
• Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

External links

• Sowerby, G.B., III. (1896) List of the Pleurotomidae of South Australia, with descriptions of some new species. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 2, 24–32, pl. 3 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
• "Guraleus (Mitraguraleus) mitralis australis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.